Showing posts with label Colbert Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colbert Report. Show all posts

10.02.2008

Soup is Good Stock


On the day that the Dow absorbs its biggest one-day loss in history (777.68 points). The Nasdaq dropped 199.61 (9.14%), to 1,983.73, the eighth largest point decline and the third biggest percentage fall in its history.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 106.59 (8.79%), to 1,106.42. It was the S&P's largest-ever point drop and its biggest percentage loss since the week after the October 1987 crash. When 499 of the S&P 500 stocks headed south for the biggest stock meltdown of the new century, one sock held it's value and even increased. Campbell's Soup is not only good food, but in the midst of an economic collapse, it also proves to be a sound investment.

Even Stephen Colbert noted the Campbell Soup rally phenomenon:

9.24.2008

OMG Society Is Collapsing

Congratulations Stephen Colbert on winning an Emmy Award!

According to the Los Angeles Times' article on the "Emmy Night Notables": After "The Colbert Report" took home the Emmy for outstanding writing for a variety, music or comedy program, star Stephen Colbert popped in to the press tent in a lively mood. When asked if he were casting a film, who he would pick to play John McCain, Colbert replied, "Rickles, obviously, would be good, and maybe me for Sarah Palin, 'cause I also have absolutely no business being vice president."